Job 21:18

In 11 translations

BSB

Are they like straw before the wind, like chaff swept away by a storm?

KJV

They are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carrieth away.carrieth: Heb. stealeth

WEB

How often is it that they are as stubble before the wind, as chaff that the storm carries away?

ASV

That they are as stubble before the wind, And as chaff that the storm carrieth away?

LSV

They are as straw before wind, || And as chaff a windstorm has stolen away,

YLT

They are as straw before wind, And as chaff a hurricane hath stolen away,

DBY

Do they become as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carrieth away?

DRC

They shall be as chaff before the face of the wind, and as ashes which the whirlwind scattereth.

GNV

They shall be as stubble before the winde, and as chaffe that the storme carieth away.

JPS

That they are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm stealeth away?

LXXE

And they shall be as chaff before the wind, or as dust which the storm has taken up.

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Original-language editions

WLC

יִהְי֗וּ כְּתֶ֥בֶן לִפְנֵי־ר֑וּחַ וּ֝כְמֹ֗ץ גְּנָבַ֥תּוּ סוּפָֽה׃

LXX-Br

Ἔσονται δὲ ὥσπερ ἄχυρα ὑπʼ ἀνέμου, ἢ ὥσπερ κονιορτὸς ὃν ὑφείλετο λαίλαψ.

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• Psalms 1:4Not so the wicked! For they are like chaff driven off by the wind.
• Psalms 83:13Make them like tumbleweed, O my God, like chaff before the wind.
• Job 13:25Would You frighten a windblown leaf? Would You chase after dry chaff?
• Psalms 35:5May they be like chaff in the wind, as the angel of the LORD drives them away.
• Isaiah 17:13The nations rage like the rush of many waters. He rebukes them, and they flee far away, driven before the wind like chaff on the hills, like tumbleweeds before a gale.
• Isaiah 29:5But your many foes will be like fine dust, the multitude of the ruthless like blowing chaff. Then suddenly, in an instant,
• Jeremiah 13:24“I will scatter you like chaff driven by the desert wind.
• Matthew 3:12His winnowing fork is in His hand to clear His threshing floor and to gather His wheat into the barn; but He will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.”
• Isaiah 5:24Therefore, as a tongue of fire consumes the straw, and as dry grass shrivels in the flame, so their roots will decay and their blossoms will blow away like dust; for they have rejected the instruction of the LORD of…
• Hosea 13:3Therefore they will be like the morning mist, like the early dew that vanishes, like chaff blown from a threshing floor, like smoke through an open window.
• Isaiah 41:15–16Behold, I will make you into a threshing sledge, new and sharp, with many teeth. You will thresh the mountains and crush them, and reduce the hills to chaff. You will winnow them, and a wind will carry them away; a…
• Nahum 1:10For they will be entangled as with thorns and consumed like the drink of a drunkard— like stubble that is fully dry.
• Isaiah 40:24No sooner are they planted, no sooner are they sown, no sooner have their stems taken root in the ground, than He blows on them and they wither, and a whirlwind sweeps them away like stubble.
• Exodus 15:7You overthrew Your adversaries by Your great majesty. You unleashed Your burning wrath; it consumed them like stubble.

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